This just gets better and better.



I love the new integrated route planner/plog feature.



I've just been playing with today's beta release and would like to suggest a couple of improvements.



1) When pressing 'Accept' on the startup screen there can be a long-ish delay until anything happens - please can you indicate that the system is starting up (e.g grey out the buttons) so that I'm sure that my button push has been accepted. This applies not just to this release, but all previous releases have the same niggle.



2) The wind instrument: I would like the wind barb to rotate when using a 'heading-up' display so that I can have an immediate idea of relative wind direction and strength. Can we have a third option to show X-Wind so that the instrument can display wind barb, head/tailwind or crosswind from Left/Right.



Keep up the great work.

Just a thought with regards to the performance issues you're seeing.



The first time a chart is displayed at a particular zoom level, the terrain for that section of the chart is rendered and saved in a cache on your memory card for much faster subsequent reloads.



It's likely that you will see the performance increase as you use the German charts more because more and more of the terrain tiles will become cached.



Its only a theory!

Hi Steve,



thanks for the input, but am not sure it's only the terrain, as there is also a big difference between loading speeds for UK and German maps when the terrain and roads&railways are turned off (see earlier post). When I have a spare moment I may reload the previous non-beta version onto the device and make the same comparisons again, but I don't recall there being such a big difference. (P.S. slow loading also seems to apply the Benelux charts). I have been loading each chart set in isolation (ie not in addition to previously loaded charts, which obviously would progressively eat into my device's memory reserves).



Trevor

Mio P550 PDA/64 MB Ram/Win Mob 5.0 + 5" Chinese Sat Nav/128 MB/Win CE 6.0 (from Chinavision)